Ivan Bonic, Phd Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Complete design and development of in-house custom designed evaluation board that uses AMD FPGA SoM and other supporting circuitry and ICs:- concept design, block diagram development, selection of components and ICs, SCH design, layout optimizations for power and high speed interfaces, BOM, manufacturing- HW and SW bring-up, Linux bring-up, detailed testing of all onboard functions and interfaces, SW development- documentation, internal customers/teams supportDevelopment of RF tests for next 5G RF transceiver during pre-silicon phase.Working on 5nm RF test chips:- contributing to development efforts for new architectures, 5nm circuits and subsystems planned for next generation Agile 5G/6G RF transceivers

Ireland

Senior Product Engineer working on latest 16nm 5G Agile RF transceivers for macro cell base stations, massive MIMO and TDD systems.- 8 TX / 8 RX / 2 ORX RF subsystems characterization and measurements, debug and optimizations- characterization of customer specific FDD/TDD use cases (software defined radio chip configurations)- evaluation, measurements and debugging of on chip RF and digital algorithms and Tracking Calibrations- development of test cases on the Software Verification Bench, expanding coverage and automation- debugging of high speed SERDES JESD 204B/C interface and test issues- Digital Pre Distortion (DPD) subsystem characterization for LTE and 5G wave forms up to 400MHz occupied RF BW, measurements and algorithm stability and convergence optimizations with high RF power LDMOS and GaN Power Amplifiers, path gain/delay optimization for DPD system Observation Receiver RF path up to 7GHz- PVT characterization of new digital HW blocks and new algorithm for Spur Cancellation in the RF Receivers- characterization of Duty Cycle Corrector (DCC) subsystem in the IQ LO path for RX, working on wideband noise reduction optimizations with the designers

Croatia

Ireland

Working on 5G RF transceivers for:- next generation wireless networks 5G TDD macro cell base stations - massive MIMO applications- TDD active antenna systems Characterization, evaluation and verification of highly integrated radio frequency (RF) agile transceivers / SDR (software defined radio) with multi RX/TX/ORx (observation receivers) for 5G base stations.Working on:- RF systems and sub-systems validation and DSP algorithms testing- measurements of on chip DSP algorithms and RF/mixed signal calibrations performance- transceiver FW features and customer SW/API packages regression testing and debugging Measurements and optimization of various transceiver subsystems: - automatic gain control (AGC)- DC offset correction- quadrature error correction (QEC)- LO leakage algorithms (LOL)- Crest Factor Reduction (CFR) subsystem- Digital Pre Distortion (DPD) subsystem- ADC/DAC calibrations- Filter calibrations

Munich Area, Germany

Verification of main RF RX ADCs inside Intel SMARTi (TM) RF transceivers for the LTE/LTE-A/3G cellular market.- working on existing automated RXADC test bench and creating new test cases to verify functionality and performance of latest high speed ADC designs (support more LTE Carrier Aggregation capabilities) and other new ADC features- developing low level codes for enabling full speed data transfer of RF RXADC data to the baseband chip for SNR, noise shaping, spurs, linearity, distortion, I/Q characteristics and other ADC specs measurements- debugging of RXADC performance issues on ADC register level programming and by using test modes / transceiver FW functions- involved in chip FIB preparations/definition closely with the designers and layouters, FIB-ed devices soldering/de-soldering, special tests implementation and execution

Munich Area, Germany

Verification Engineer responsible for the evaluation of an FM Radio Transceiver core within connectivity SoC ICs.- planning of post silicon verification test campaigns in order to meet project goals and resolve HW/FW problems timely- pro-active interaction with other engineering teams (system, concept, circuit design, firmware ..) on test definition and verification execution- instructing and coaching other team members- co-running and co-existence verification and debugging (co-ex with macros: GSM, 3G, BT, Wlan, GNSS, PMU, Audio, charge pumps, CGU ...)

Munich Area, Germany

Focus on RF and Mixed-Signal verification of Intel SMARTi (TM) LTE RF transceivers for smart phones, tablets, wearable, and other mobile wireless products.Mainly working on Mixed-Signal blocks verification: - Cellular RF PLLs, RX and TX DPLLs- TX PADAC and RAMP DAC verification- TX envelope tracking blocks in digital and analog signal pathWorking with passion during chip bring-ups and first validation and with high commitment to the project in order to deliver quickly accurate lab test results to the designers.

Munich Area, Germany

- design of test automation (MATLAB and C# for automation tooling, GPIB, JTAG/Lauterbach, FW, driver, DUT control over USB, UART, MIPI, DigRF etc.)- developing and maintaining current automated test bench and tooling- responsible for functional and performance verification of the ICs with focus on the FMR- conducting block level and system level tests for FMR RX and TX- validation of specifications and KPIs over supply, temperature and process variations- definition of tests with Concept, System and Design Engineers- support and debugging of customer returns and production tester issues- support of application engineering and lead customers in later development phases- conducted and radiated measurements of RX and TX transciever paths

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Postgraduate Course For Phd. Degree

Research area: Electromagnetic metamaterials based on non-Foster networks for radiating, scattering and transfer of electromagnetic waves..

Master'S Degree, Radio Communications And Professional Electronics

Mathematics, Physics, Electrical engineering, Information theory, Analog and digital electronics, Signal processing, Signals and systems.

High School, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Electronics, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Mechanics, Information technology, Computer HW and SW, Programing, Analog and digital.